Last week, the German Federal Office for Justice announced that it had issued two fines totaling €5.125 million against Telegram for failing to comply with the country’s Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG), Germany’s online content moderation law. The...
The European Union’s (EU) proposed Terrorist Content Regulation continues to face opposition from major tech companies including Google/YouTube and Microsoft. The new regulation would allow EU member states to impose fines on tech firms of up to four...
CEP Study Finds That Only 43.5 Percent Of Extremist And Terrorist Content Is Removed On Major Platforms The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Berlin conducted a new study between January 31 st and February 14 th to test big tech’s compliance with...
Enacted in 2018, Germany’s pioneering and ambitious Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG ) represents an important milestone in curbing online extremism. However, the law, which fines online platforms for failures to delete illegal content, has been a...
Record Spending on Special Interest Lobbying Belies Tech Industry Rhetoric Last week, the world’s biggest tech companies converged on the World Economic Forum, an annual high-profile gathering of global elites in Davos, Switzerland. Tech execs spent...
Germany’s Efforts to Hold Facebook Accountable Concerning Privacy Run Into Same Problems as Online Extremism Germany is again finding reason to regulate the tech industry. The country’s Federal Cartel Office, the Bundeskartellamt , recently expressed...
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